Juggling

This term room12 has been learning how to juggle.  To juggle, the first thing you do is to start with one ball and throw it from one hand to the other.  Then you go to two balls and throw them up one at a time, but you have to throw the second ball when the fist ball gets to the middle and don't worry about caching them.  When you have practice that try to caching them.  Click on the link to see our animoto Juggling

long-a-sound

This term my spelling group, The Blends, have been working on long-a-sounds.  When we had found some words like...

• rain
• came
• make
• cake

we typed them out on the computer.  Then we copied them onto wordle and this is what my one looks like.

similis poems

This term room12 has been learning about similies and we made some poems with them e.g

                         

                            grey is cold

                            like a freezer

                        like a frozen lake

                        like a block of ice

This a video of the poems I made.

maori language week

Last week was Maori language week. For Maori langauge week room12 learnt the Maori body song. It goes like this
Mahunga, pakahiwi, puku, hope, wae wae

Mahunga, pakahiwi, puku, hope, wae wae
Mahunga, pakahiwi, puku, hope, wae wae
Taringa, karu, ihu, waha e


here is the translashon

 heads shoulders tummy hips and legs
heads shoulders tummy hips and legs
heads shoulders tummy hips and legs

We had to teach room5 how to do it. My buddy learnt it really fast. After we had taught them Mrs Parkinson called out one of the maori words and they had to point to it on their body. 

ears eyes noes mouth.

speeches

This term room12 did speeches the three things I think I did well was eye contact, remembering my speech and using a clear voice. The two things I can improve on could be expression and gesture's and one thing I learnt was that Elbert Einstein uses one sum for things e = mc2.

plurals

This term room12 has been working on plurals.  Plurals are nouns that are more than one thing.  So the noun child becomes children.  If the word ends with a y you change the y into ies and if it is a f you change the f into a ves.  If there is a val beefor the y you just add as at the end.  You have to do this because it is how the word is spelt.

Here are some plurals....

• elf = elves
• valley = valleys
• navy = navies
•  loaf = loaves

roman numerals!!!!

For the last couple of days the math group called porohita made some poster's of Roman-numerals or Maori Numbers. You could do it in group of 2 or 3 or do it by your self. I did it in a group of 2 and I did it with Savannah. Our poster was about Roman-numerals. Here is a video and a picture of us sharing.OUR POSTER ROCKS!